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The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780449003718Author... -
On Animals by Susan Orlean 9781838955489
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'Every essay in this book is magnificent... Mesmerizing.' New York Times'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the... -
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A New York Times Book of the Year, 2018A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICKA dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our libraries.After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean... -
On Animals by Susan Orlean 9781982181536
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982181536Author Susan OrleanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon &... -
On Animals by Susan Orlean 9781982181543
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982181543Author Susan OrleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon &... -
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean 9780099289586
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Susan Orlean first met John Laroche when visiting Florida to write for the New Yorker about his arrest for stealing rare ghost orchids from a nature reserve. Fascinated both by Laroche and the world... -
Joyride: A Memoir by Susan Orlean 9781982135164
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £21.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982135164Author Susan OrleanFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &... -
The Library Book by Susan Orlean 9781476740195
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476740195Author Susan OrleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Saturday Night by Susan Orlean 9781451660982
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451660982Author Susan OrleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon... -
Joyride: A Memoir by Susan Orlean 9781838955496
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38'Brilliant...A high-spirited, exhilarating memoir' Wall Street Journal 'In Joyride, the takeaway often has as much to do with the art of living as the art of writing' Elle 'Wise and exuberant...It's... -
The Best American Essays by Susan Orlean 9780618357130
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618357130Author Susan OrleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
My Kind Of Place by Susan Orlean 9780812974874
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £13.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974874Author Susan OrleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
Booksplease Price: £11.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439190142Author Susan OrleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon... -
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025 by Susan Orlean 9780063414211
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15"The best science and nature writing-which these stories represent-reminds us of the wide world and our connection to it, and the multitude of ways we make our place in it," writes Susan Orlean in... -
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People by Susan Orlean 9780375758638
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758638Author Susan OrleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House Trade... -
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend of the World's Most Famous Dog by Susan Orlean
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Rin Tin Tin was born on a battlefield in France towards the end of WW1. He died in 1932, supposedly in the arms of Jean Harlow, the original 'blonde bombshell', epic in death as he was in life. In... -
Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being by Jean-François Beauchemin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.53"Beauchemin discovers again and again that happiness is a function of the connection between beings-the nonhuman animals as well as the human."-Maria Popova, A Favorite Book of 2023For readers of... -
Scriptwriting for the Screen by Charlie Moritz
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.89'If I was setting out as a screenwriter, this is the book I would read first and keep by me'- Melanie Harris, Producer, Crosslab Productions'An excellent resource for students and teachers alike'- In... -
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £10.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501160349Author Lulu MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &... -
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption by Katy Kelleher 9781982179366
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects. April recommended... -
Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show Tommy Tomlinson 9781982149338
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62"Delightful." -Town & Country * "Extraordinary...Tomlinson's book is a gem." -Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * "Moving...Really broke me." -The Washington Post * "This book wants to lick your face. Let... -
SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build by Jonathan Waldman
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £11.99A true story of innovation that "reads like a movie" (Seth Godin), centered on a scrappy team of engineers-far from the Silicon Valley limelight-and their quest to revolutionize the traditional trade... -
Reporting Always: Writings from The New Yorker by Lillian Ross 9781501116018
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.57From the inimitable New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross-"a collection of her most luminous New Yorker pieces" (Entertainment Weekly, grade: A).A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1945, Lillian... -
Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction Dean Nelson 9798881803520
Booksplease Price: £34.83Am I a writer? Where should I get ideas? Is my writing any good? How did my favorite authors make it big? The act of writing is a daunting task for many people, and becoming a "writer" means so much... -
Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions by Annik LaFarge 9781501188725
Booksplease Price: £12.47A modern take on a classical icon: this "luminous book" (Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Library Book) tells the story of when, where, and how Chopin composed his most famous... -
The Garden by Paul Perry
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The Garden is dying. Once an Edenic orchid farm, it has been decimated by the worst hurricane in Florida's living memory. Its glasshouses are shattered, the surrounding mangroves encroach, and its... -
The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42NEW & NOTEWORTHY ~ THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and... -
The Los Angeles Central Library by Kenneth Breisch 9781606064900
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.60In the most comprehensive investigation of the Los Angeles Public Library's early history and architectural genesis ever undertaken, Kenneth Breisch chronicles the institution's first six decades,... -
Orchid in Lore and Legend by Luigi Berliocchi 9780881926163
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52The orchid is the most evocative of flowers, inspiring in some of its admirers a fanaticism akin to madness, as demonstrated in Susan Orlean's popular novel The Orchid Thief. This elegant survey of... -
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2003: The Year's Finest Writing On Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country & More by Matt Groening
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82It's here: the fourth and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music reading fix. The 2003 volume will celebrate the year's best writing about music and its culture... -
Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot by Michael McLeod 9780520269866
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.64Part history, part road trip, and part biography, this is the true story of a remarkable group of men whose obsession with Bigfoot turned the giant hominid into an American icon. Award-winning... -
The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire by Tom Zoellner 9780312339708
Booksplease Price: £17.27In 2000, Tom Zoellner purchased a diamond engagement ring and proposed. His girlfriend said, "yes" and then, suddenly, walked out of his life making Tom the owner of a used engagement ring. Instead... -
Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio by Lisa Watts 9780821417294
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77"A good place to be from." That's how some people might characterize the Buckeye State. The writings in Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio, are testimony to the truth of that statement... -
Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio by Lisa Watts 9780821417287
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.93"A good place to be from." That's how some people might characterize the Buckeye State. The writings in Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio, are testimony to the truth of that statement... -
Settling the Borderland: Other Voices in Literary Journalism by Jan Whitt 9780761840930
Booksplease Price: £44.76Settling the Borderland deals with the intimate connection between journalism and literature, both fields in which work by women has been underrepresented. This book has a twin focus: the work of... -
Outside 25: Classic Tales and New Voices from the Frontiers of America by Hal Espen 9780393325034
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.87Sebastian Junger goes whaling; Jon Krakauer solves the fatal mystery of a lost hiker; David Quammen tracks big, bad wolves in Romania; Ian Frazier profiles the world's wiliest mushroom hunter; Susan... -
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More by J. T. LeRoy 9780306814464
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Da Capo Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every... -
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002: The Year's Finest Writing On Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, & More by Jonathan Lethem 9780306811661
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00It's here: the third and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music-reading fix. The 2002 volume will celebrate the year's best writing about music and its culture, as... -
My Harvest Kitchen: 100+ Recipes to Savor the Seasons Gesine Bullock-Prado 9781682689165
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.66In this new cookbook, Gesine Bullock-Prado invites her fans into her kitchen, where the harvest is local. Whether she's picked the lettuce from her own garden, visited a farmers' market or shopped at... -
The Columnist by Jeffrey Frank 9781982138967
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Years of backstabbing and betrayal start to catch up with one of Washington’s elite opinion writers, “a character that deserves to jump outside the Beltway and enter the language like ‘Uncle Tom,’...